Hey there, happy new year. And I'm glad to hear that you appreciated my post and explanation!
I just like H/Hr people and I feel bad for them.
Heh, me too.
I ship Hermione with Lavender, Padma, or Luna.
Hm, yeah, I can see her with Padma. If I was to see Hermione in a queer relationship, I see her working pretty well with Cho, actually.
I really love and appreciate you for your love of that ship. If I could just isolate myself and only watch you and Heron for a while, I'd be cured, I think.
Aw, why thank you!
... But I'm sure many, many OBHWFers wouldn't consider me a "true" R/Hr shipper, since I pointed out all the ways that they're absofuckinglutely terrible for each other. I think there's a tendency for canon-thumpers to believe that just because Rowling wrote some random ship, it'll just magically be okay and the characters will "work" for each other and we readers just have to accept it.
Your explanation on R/Hr shipping was beautiful. It was the whole "this love will last forever" thing that re-he-heally got to me ... The whole telling us the end pairings was a bad, control freak-y move, was it not?
For the record, I could totally buy that R/Hr's love could last "forever," as implied by Rowling and canon-thumpers, but only IF big, huge changes and concessions were made in their relationship. But Rowling's damn epilogue, where they show the characters still pretty much having the exact same personalities as 20 years earlier, kind of negates that possibility.
The epilogue wasn't just kind of excessive from a control-freak POV, but also an example of bad writing and character development, IMO. She told us that everything is fine and peachy with all the final OBHWF pairings, but she didn't show any change in their personalities. And knowing what we know about their personalities and conflicts, it's hard to just buy her telling of their future lives.
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Date: Saturday, January 1st, 2011 09:03 pm (UTC)From:I just like H/Hr people and I feel bad for them.
Heh, me too.
I ship Hermione with Lavender, Padma, or Luna.
Hm, yeah, I can see her with Padma. If I was to see Hermione in a queer relationship, I see her working pretty well with Cho, actually.
I really love and appreciate you for your love of that ship. If I could just isolate myself and only watch you and Heron for a while, I'd be cured, I think.
Aw, why thank you!
... But I'm sure many, many OBHWFers wouldn't consider me a "true" R/Hr shipper, since I pointed out all the ways that they're absofuckinglutely terrible for each other. I think there's a tendency for canon-thumpers to believe that just because Rowling wrote some random ship, it'll just magically be okay and the characters will "work" for each other and we readers just have to accept it.
Your explanation on R/Hr shipping was beautiful. It was the whole "this love will last forever" thing that re-he-heally got to me ... The whole telling us the end pairings was a bad, control freak-y move, was it not?
For the record, I could totally buy that R/Hr's love could last "forever," as implied by Rowling and canon-thumpers, but only IF big, huge changes and concessions were made in their relationship. But Rowling's damn epilogue, where they show the characters still pretty much having the exact same personalities as 20 years earlier, kind of negates that possibility.
The epilogue wasn't just kind of excessive from a control-freak POV, but also an example of bad writing and character development, IMO. She told us that everything is fine and peachy with all the final OBHWF pairings, but she didn't show any change in their personalities. And knowing what we know about their personalities and conflicts, it's hard to just buy her telling of their future lives.
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